Xerox Alto restoration day 5: Smoke and parity errors

In today's Xerox Alto restoration session we investigated why the system doesn't boot. We find a broken wire, hook up a logic analyzer, generate a cloud of smoke, and discover that memory problems are preventing the computer from booting. (In previous episodes, we fixed the power supply, got the CRT…
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